If there’s a tie for most votes, ALL tied colours are TARGETS and DIE. ONE: See which colour got the most votes. The capital letters below are a mix of terminology from the game and my own enthusiasm. Once everyone’s card is down you all reveal your cards and four things happen, each more awesome than the last. Whenever you’re ready (which usually takes no more than 60 seconds), everyone puts a card facedown showing the colour of the person they’re trying to kill. If the sky’s a certain colour you could point at it and use that too. You could flash a coloured card at other people, pluck at your shirt (which happens to be someone’s colour) or use that colour in a sentence. You might make eye contact with a player opposite you and flick your eyes at a target. ![]() You might do this by leaning backwards from the table and gesturing madly at your neighbour. As soon as the game begins (or possibly even before that), everyone starts coming to a decision as to who to kill without letting that player know. The rules themselves couldn’t be simpler. It’s simply one card showing every other player, and one in your own colour reading “Ambush”. Isn’t that an exquisite opening to a rules explanation? As soon as the game begins people will start murdering each other by consensus and/or killing themselves by accident, and your objective is to be one of the last 2 people left standing. So Dead Last is basically Ca$h ‘n Guns meets Diplomacy, it’s the best new party game I’ve played all year and it’s the first game this site’s covered that will play completely differently depending on the size and shape of your table.ĭo I have your interest? Come with me! I promise I won’t shoot you.ĭead Last – and please, take a moment to appreciate that name – begins with 6-12 players sat around a table, each with a coloured standee, a private deck of cards and an unusually shifty look. Huger thanks still to the rest of you for being patient during this site’s quiet time, and we’re going make it up to you with a whole series of dramatic reviews showcasing the best games we found at Gen Con, including Captain Sonar, Seafall and Inis, but we’re starting right this second with Smirk & Dagger’s Dead Last. They’ll be up on the site in the coming weeks. Huge thanks to everyone who came to our extra-ridiculous live shows. ![]() Quinns: Phew! Paul and I are back from Gen Con and I’m $200 poorer after being charged by United Airlines for my overweight bag, stuffed as it was with board games and gifted bourbon.
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